Coin package



June 22 1926. Y 1,589,694

G. I. HOHL COI N PACKAGE Filed July 10, 1925 INVEN TOR.

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Patented June 22, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE I. HOHL, OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND. ASSIGNOR TO STANDARD-JOHNSON JOMPA'NY, INC OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW -YOBK.

COIN PACKAGE.

Application filed July 10, 1925. Serial No. 42,709.

This invention relates to improvements in coin wrappers or packages; and the invention has reference, more particularly, to a novel construction of tubular paper package or wrapper to contain a stack or roll of coins.

This invention consists in a paper package or wrapper formed from a wrapper blank having parallel longitudinal sides or edges and oblique transverse edges or ends, and which is rolled in the direction of its length into tubular or hollow cylindrical form, whereby both the inner oblique transverse end and the outer oblique transverse end will respectively tend to cling to the respective internal and external cylindrical sur faces of the tubular formation without gapping. One end of the tubular package thus produced is inwardly crimped to form an internal retaining shoulder or stop against which the coins abut or are stopped when deposited within the package, while the opposite end of. the package is left open to provide a circular mouth or entrance through which the coins may be introduced into the interior of the package.

I have found, however, in the production of coin packages in the above indicated manner, that the pointed inner extremity of the wrapper convolutions at the open mouth of the package, which is formed by the juncture of said inner or leading oblique transverse end with one side of the wrapper body upon which it converges, tends to spring inwardly at the mouth of the package, thus interrupting the desired circular continuity of said package mouth or entrance opening, and consequently offering an obstruction to the coins sought to be passed through said mouth into the interior of the package. It is, therefore, the principal object of this invention to provide means to prevent such internal distortion of the mouth of the package, while nevertheless retaining the full strength of the wrapper at such point which is afforded by the lapping convolutions of the latter. To this end I have devised a novel construction of means for producing an interlocking tuck, whereby said pointed inner extremity is tucked or inserted through a vertical notch or slit in the adjacent outer side edge portion oi the wrapper body, thus firmly anchoring and securing the same against inward springing or bulging, and causing the same to closely hug the internal surface of the wrapper within the mouth thereof, so that the desired substantially circular continuity of the latter is not interrupted. I d

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the same.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: I I

Fig. 1 is an elevation of the tubular or hollow cylindrical coin package made according to and embodying the principles of this invention; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the same; Fig. 3 is an end view of the same, looking toward the open mouth thereof, said view being drawn on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the novel coin package. is produced; and Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective illustrating the manner of producing the novel interlocking tuck when rolling the blank into tubular or hollow cylindrical form.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the hereinabove described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to said drawings, I have shown in Fig. 4 a plan of the paper blank from which the novel package is produced. This blank consists of a flat body of paper of a width corresponding substantially to the length of package to be produced. Said blank is shaped to provide. parallel longitudinal side edges 6 and 7, and oblique transverse end edges 8 and 9, which are preferably parallel one to the other. The oblique transverse end edge 8 constitutes the leading end of the blank, and is so shaped or inclined as to converge. toward and with the side edge 6, thus forming a pointed extremity 10. Formed in the marginal portion of said side edge 6, at a distance to the rear of said pointed extremity 10 which is somewhat less than the circumferential dimension of the tubular or hollow cylindrical package to be formed, is an incision, slit or notch 11.

In manipulating the blank, formed as above described, the same is wound, in the direction of its length, upon a suitable form or mandrel, by carrying the leading end 8 with its pointed extremity 10 around the said form or mandrel, until said pointed extremity 1O meets and passes through the incision, slit or notch 11, as shown in Fig. 5, whereupon an inner convolution 12 is formed with said pointed extremity tucked through the incision, slit or notch to lie on the outer side of said inner convolution 12. The winding of the body of the blank is thereupon continued, thus forming an outer convolution 13 which laps the inner convolution 12, and which overlies the pointed e2:- treniity 10 so that the same is interlocked be tween said inner and outer convolutions 12 and 13, as shown most clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

The wrapper blank having been thus wound into tubular or hollow cylindrical shape, the end thereof bounded by the edge 7 is inwardly turned or crimped, to form an internal annular shoulder 1 1-, which serves both as a means for retaining the blank in the tubular or hollow cylindrical shape to which it has been formed, and as a stop against which the coins may abut when in troduced into the opposite open end of the package. Said opposite open end of the package provides a substantially circular mouth through which coins may be introduced into the interior of the package, and since the pointed extremity 10 of the leading end of the wrapper blank, is tucked and en gaged between the inner and outer convolutions 12 and 13 of the package, the end edge of the blank is thereby securely anchored and held against inward springing or bulging, and thus prevented from interrupting the desired circular continuity of the mouth of the package all as heretofore pointed out.

By the above described construction, the novel paper coin package is provided with complete lapping convolutions at its month end without waste of stock and is not weakened by cutting away portions of the inner convolution to foreshorten the same, as in other forms of wrappers and packages known to the art, but rather possesses strength at its mouth end equal to that possessed by any other portion of the convolved body, while yet being so constructed that internal distortion of said mouth end of the package is avoided.

Having thus described my invention, I claim z- 1. A tubular coin package comprising a blank wound into a plurality of convolutions, the. inner convolution having a pointed extremity coincident with the upper edge of said convolutions which form the mouth of said package, said inner convolution having an indented slot in its upper edge spaced circumferentially rearward from said pointed extremity, and said pointed extremity being tucked through said slot to lie and be anchored between said inner and an outer convolutions of said package.

2. A preformed tubular coin package comprising a blank wound into a plurality of convolutions, the inner convolution having a pointed extremity coincident with the upper edges of said convolutions which form the mouth of said package, said inner c0nvolution having an indented slot in its up per edge spaced circumferentially rearward from said pointed extremity, said pointed extremity being tucked through said slot to lie and be anchored between said inner and an outer convolutions of said package, and the lower edges oi said convolutions being inwardly crimped to retain the package in preformed tubular shape and to form an interlocking internal stop shoulder for coins entered therein.

3. A preformed tubular package for coins comprising a blank having an oblique transverse leading end to form a pointed extremity at the juncture of said leading end with the upper longitudinal side of said blank,

said upper longitudinal side having an indented slot, said blank being wound in the direction 01" its length into a plurality of convolutions with said pointed extremity tucked through said slot to lie and be anchored between inner and outer convolu tions, and means formed from the lower longitudinal side of the wound blank to close the lower end of the package and retain the same in preformed tubular shape.

4. A coin wrapper consisting of a blank having substantially parallel longitudinal side edges and an oblique transverse leading end being adapted to provide a pointed extremity coincident with one longitudinal side edge, and the latter longitudinal side edge having an indented slot spaced rearwardly from said pointed extremity as and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of June, 1925.

GEORGE I. HOHL. 

